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Australia
Direct Democracy Forum,
15 Landry Ave, Highton, VIC 3216;
Tel: 3 5243 2530.
www.ao.com.au/ddf
Greenpeace
Australia
www.greenpeace.org.au/getactive
A new broad-based site of news and networks on community activism.
Committee
for Workers International,
PO Box 1015, Collingwood, Vic 3066. Tel: 03 9417 0805;
Fax: 03 9650 3689;
E-mail: sp@mira.net
Britain
Charter 88,
16-24 Underwood St, London,
N1 7JQ; Tel: +44 207 684 3888;
Website: www.charter88.org.uk
Broad-based campaign to reform the centralist Westminster system.
Protect
the Local, Globally,
11 Park House Gardens,
East Twickenham, Middlesex TW1 2DF; Tel: +44 208 892-5051;
Fax: +44 208-892-5051;
E-mail: chines@dial
Champions of local power and citizens’ initiatives everywhere.
Canada
Democracy Watch,
PO Box 821, Stn B,
Ottawa, Ont. K1P 5P9;
Tel: +1 613 241- 5179;
Fax: +1 613 241 4758;
E-mail: Dwatch@web.net
Naderite watchdog group.
Participatory
Direct Democracy Association,
304-365 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg, Mb;
Tel: +1 204 284 6564;
Fax: 204-284-6564.
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United
States
Center for Voting and Democracy,
6930 Carro Ave, Suite 901,
Tacoma Park, Md 20912;
Tel: +1 301 270 4616;
E-mail: cudusa@aol.com
Information and strategies on the malaise of US democracy and how
to combat it.
The
Center for Living Democracy,
289 Fox Farm Road, Brattleboro, Vt 05301;
Tel: +1 802 254 1234;
Fax: +1 802 254 1227.
Resources to rebuild a relevant democracy.
International
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA),
Stromborg, S-103 34, Stockholm, Sweden;
Tel: +46 8 698 3700;
Fax: +46 8 20 24 22;
E-mail: info@idea.int
A major institution that works with Southern democrats (through
an annual international forum) to build vital and fair democracies
North and South.
Movement
for Direct Democracy,
Bellova 15, Brno 623,00, Czech Republic;
E-mail: Binka@phil.muni.cz
Website: www.Auburn.edu/tann/prague
International movement whose next convention is in Athens, the cradle
of democracy.
http://flag.blackened.net/liberty
has an astounding number of links with anti-authoritarian groups all
over the world.
www.australiaconnects.net
creating democracy from the bottom up.
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WORTH
READING ON DEMOCRACY
BOOKS
Street-Level Democracy, edited by Jonathan Barker, Between The
Lines, Toronto, 1999. Democracy, Anthony Arblaster, University
of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1987. Imagine Democracy, Judy
Rebick, Stoddart, Toronto, 2000. Models of Democracy, David Held,
Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1996. Radical Democracy, C
Douglas Lummis, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1996.
MAGAZINES
AMPO: The Japan-Asia Quarterly Review, PO Box 5250, Tokyo Int'l,
Japan; E-mail: parc@ca.apc.org Subscriptions $28. Covers the struggle
for people's power in Asia. Review of African Political Economy,
Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG24 8PR, Britain; Tel: +44 1256 330245.
For Rates and addresses elsewhere e-mail: sales@carfax.com
Covers the blockages both internal and external to the evolution of popular
democracy in Africa.
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